Oregon beats Vandals handily
Brianne Meharry filled
in for injured center
Jenny Mowe to lead the
Ducks with 16 points
By Alex Pond
Sports Reporter
Oregon’s depth received a stiff
test Friday in Moscow, Idaho, and
the Ducks passed with flying colors.
The Oregon women’s basketball
team overcame foul trouble and an
injury to starting center Jenny
Mowe to hold off Idaho 78-61 for
the season-opening victory.
Mowe was limited to just eight
first-half minutes because of a
flare-up of tendinitis in her
kneecap, but she did some damage
before departing, scoring 10 points
and grabbing four rebounds.
Five players scored in double fig
ures for the Ducks (1-0), with fresh
man Brianne Meharry’s 16 points
and Sonja Curtis’ 15 leading the way.
Meharry was forced to play cen
ter, not her natural position, much
of the second half because of the
loss of Mowe and foul trouble to
the 6-foot-2 Curtis and 6-foot-3
Angelina Wolvert. Curtis fouled
out with six minutes, 11 seconds
remaining in the game, and
Wolvert fouled out with 4:09 left.
“It gave me an opportunity to
come out and see what I could do
on the floor,” Meharry said. “It
turned out pretty well."
Idaho (0-2) rallied from a 44-26
halftime deficit to pull within 10
points with a little more than six
minutes remaining.
Then Meharry took over, scoring
five of the Ducks’ next seven points
to help them
build a 72-57 lead
with 3:45 left.
“Bri knows
how to win,” Ore
gon head coach
Jody Runge said.
“She knows tem
po, she under
stands when you’ve got to score
and when you’ve got to get a stop. ”
In the first regular-season game
of her Oregon career, Meharry
showed few signs of any nervous
ness, connecting on seven of 11
shots from the field.
“I felt really comfortable going
in and was ready to play,” she said.
The Ducks broke the game open
early with an 11-0 run over a 2:31
span of the first half to take a 35-18
lead on their way to the halftime
advantage. They increased that
lead to 22 in the second half before
Idaho’s mini-rally. Oregon made
six of eight free throws down the
stretch to seal the victory.
“It was a rough, physical game,"
Runge said, “and without Jenny in
the game in the second half it was
a little difficult. But I think it was a
sign of this team that they just real
ly find a way to get it done. We
have a lot of weapons to put out on
the floor, and I think that’s really
going to help us down the stretch. ”
Runge went deep into her bench
early, as 12 players got into the
game in the first half.
“I’m just really trying to get a lot
of these young kids a lot of playing
time out on the floor so they can be
ready when the crucial situations
come,” Runge said.
Oregon outshot Idaho 51.9 per
cent to 38.2 percent from the field
and committed just 12 turnovers
to the Vandals’ 19.
“I am very pleased with the
turnovers because it was a physi
cal game and they pressed us al
most the whole way,” Runge said.
Jennifer Stone led Idaho with 18
points, while Oregon’s Mendy
Benson pulled down a game-high
12 rebounds.
Oregon will go after its second win
tonight when it travels to Portland,
where they will try to snap the Pilots’
24-game home court winning streak.
Ducks start season with ugly win
Henry Madden paced Oregon with 22
points and nine rebounds in its
74-67 nonconference win over BYU
By Chris Hansen
Assistant Sports Editor
A win is a win, and if Friday night’s game is any
indication, the Ducks will take them any way they
can get them.
It wasn’t pretty, and it may have left more ques
tions asked than answered, but in the end, the Ore
gon men’s basketball team began its 1997-98 non
conference season with a win on the road against
Brigham Young (0-3).
Led by Henry Madden’s team-high 22 points and
nine rebounds, Oregon held off a pesky Cougar team
for a 74-67 win in front of 8,350 at the Marriott Center
in Provo, Utah.
It was the first counting game of the Ernie Kent era,
Oregon’s first-year head coach, and also the first post
Kenya Wilkins game.
Sophomore Mike McShane started the game at
point guard, but Yasir Rosemond received the bulk
of the playing time. Neither player was outstanding,
though, with McShane scoring four points and dish
ing out three assists in 16 minutes, and Rosemond
scoring nine with only two assists in 27 minutes.
Rosemond also had five of the teams 15 turnovers,
while McShane only had two.
Terik Brown made back-to-back three-pointers at
the start of the game as Oregon scored the first eight
points. But the Cougars followed with a 13-0 run of
their own to take the lead and hold it for much of the
first half.
Led by Madden, Oregon worked its way back on
top to take a three-point lead, 34-31 at halftime, and
then used Madden again to spurt out to an eight
point lead, 44-36, to start the second half. The Ducks
held the lead for the remainder of
the game, hitting on 12 straight free
throw attempts in the game’s final
minute to secure the victory.
Brown was second on the team in
scoring with 19 points, the only other
Oregon player in double figures. He
hit five of 11 three pointers.
While a win is nice to start off the season, the fact
remains that Oregon struggled to beat a team that lost
to Washington State by 30 points two nights before.
Oregon also has to be concerned with the shooting
of senior guard Jamar Curry, who was two for 10 from
the field and never made it to the free-throw line.
But true to his word, Kent played nine players
with all but forward Donte Quinine putting points on
the board. In the preseason, Kent had promised he
would play his entire bench and the scoring would
be spread around.
The Cougars were paced by Brian Hamilton, who
came off the bench to score 24 points, including six
of 10 from the three-point line.
Cross country teams are
ready for championships
The Ducks will take on
22 of the country’s best
teams at the NCAA
Championships today
By Joel Hood
Spoils Reporter
It’s back to their old stomping
ground for the Oregon cross
country teams. The Ducks, who
have combined for six national
titles and 46 NCAA Champi
onship appearances since 1963,
return to the NCAA Champi
onships in Greenville, S.C.,
Monday with similar agendas.
The men will run the 1 OK race
at 11 a.m., followed by the
women’s 5K race at noon, on the
Furman University Golf Course.
Oregon will race against 22 of the
country's elite teams in a best-of
five scoring format that puts a
premium on team strength, not
the strength of the individual —
something the Oregon men’s
team has already placed a premi
um on this season.
The NCAA Championships is
a remarkable achievement, Ore
gon’s runners said, for a team
that was expected to have to wait
until next season to make an im
pact on the national standings.
Also remarkable because the
No. 6 Ducks have been led by
four different runners in five dif
ferent races this season. Rob
Aubrey was the first Duck to re
peat as the team's top finisher
this season when he finished
10th last Saturday at the West Re
gional Championships in Tuc
son, Ariz. But that could give this
team an advantage, Aubrey said.
“There really isn’t any pressure
on us at this point,” he said. “It’s a
nice feeling to come into a race
like this and be considered an un
derdog. It's certainly a change
from what we’re used to.”
Confidence has not been a
problem for Oregon despite being
without a standout runner much
of the season. Instead, Oregon has
taken a leadership-by-committee
attitude into every race this sea
son, Aubrey said, and will con
tinue to do so at the NCAAs.
“We are in the best shape, both
physically and mentally, than we
have been all season,” Aubrey
said. “Everyone has had experi
ence racing at a high level in their
careers, it’s just a matter of putting
it all together in one race. ”
A year removed from its last na
tional title, No. 1 Arkansas returns
as a slight favorite in the men’s
competition. Slight because No. 2
and defending champion Stan
ford returns three All-Americans
and is fresh off a dominating first
place finish at the West Regional
Championships.
Third-ranked Colorado, No.
4 Michigan and No. 5 Wiscon
sin are also expected to chal
lenge for the top spot. The
Wolverines
have a pair of
runners, All
Americans
Kevin Sulli
van and John
Mortimer,
who should contend for the in
dividual crown.
The women's race is expected
to be more clear-cut as No. 1 and
defending national champion
Stanford is the favorite to repeat
in the team standings, and Ari
zona’s Amy Skieresz is expected
to defend her individual crown.
The Cardinal has been the
country’s top-ranked team
since it ran away from the 22
team field at last season’s
NCAA Championships. The
team's performances have been
no less dominating this season.
Stanford easily won the West
Region’s No. 1 automatic quali
fying spot last Saturday at the
West Regional Championships.
Finishing second to Stanford
at both the regional champi
onships and the Pacific-10
Championships was an Oregon
team that, despite its No. 5 rank
ing, has seemed to run in Stan
ford’s shadow the entire season.
While head coach Tom
Heinonen thinks it will take a
minor miracle for the Ducks to
make a run at the national title,
he is quick to praise a teanyhat
has overcome injuries to return
to the NCAAs.
“We are going to be dinged
up, but we’re just going to have
to run through it,” Heinonen
said. “We are a cohesive team
that has done a good job of run
ning with on-going physical
problems. This race won’t be
any different.”
Oregon’s runners said not to
discount a team that has be
lieved in itself the entire season.
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